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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 355

Lee Harvey Oswald?s Personally-Owned and Worn Overcoat.

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000

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[Kennedy Assassination] Lee Harvey Oswald?s Personally-Owned and Worn Overcoat. Circa 1957. Blue single-breasted wool overcoat, three buttons down the front, his name stitched in gold thread above the inside breast pocket ?Lee H Oswald?. Maker?s label reads ?Kawashima, Tailor, Yokohama, Japan?. Purchased by Oswald while stationed in Japan as a Marine sometime in 1957. Coat can be seen in a photograph of Oswald and his wife standing on a bridge in Minsk, taken around 1961; the photo later became exhibit 1392 in the Warren Commission?s investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Near fine, with expected wear throughout. With LOA from Oswald?s brother, Robert L. Oswald.